Mad Shelley's Letterbox chords by Robyn Hitchcock

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Verse 1
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Time is written on your face
And the cold white arms of
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memory embrace you
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Love is all we lay to waste
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Now it's only lips of
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A 
Loneliness that taste you
Oh god you were beautiful
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A 
Oh god you were beautiful oh god
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Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
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Bm 
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Of birthday cards me
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I never left the room
The lightbulb that shone down
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On me was gloomy
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I could read you by the moon
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The way you looked at me
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I thought you knew me
Oh god you were beautiful
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A 
Oh god you were beautiful oh god
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Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
Bm 
A 
Of birthday cards
Em 
Bm 
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Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
Bm 
A 
Of birthday cards
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Verse 2
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(Special delivery from mad
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A 
D 
Shelley) what
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Could anybody say
Except in hindsight this was
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bound to happen
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When two souls collide this way
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There's no compartment
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they can find a map in
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I  don't know what your
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mind is thinking
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Your mind's not in your heart
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Oh god you were beautiful
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A 
Oh god you were beautiful oh god
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G 
D 
Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
Bm 
A 
Of birthday cards
Em 
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Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
D 
Bm 
A 
Of birthday cards
E 
Em 
G 
Mad Shelley's letterbox is full
D 
Bm 
Of birthday cards
A 